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From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Brian Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: A Super-huge, transferrable database?
Keywords: database
Message-ID: <12222@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 30 Mar 91 13:35:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.041147.23182@news.nd.edu> <1991Mar24.054113.1987@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Mar24.054113.1987@m.cs.uiuc.edu> thompson@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark Thompson) writes:
>I'm looking for a specific type of program:
>
>Does anyone know of a database program which:
>
>  1. Can handle *HUGE* files.  I'm planning on having about 10,000 entries,
>     each of about 500 bytes.  That's a 5 Meg file.  Yowza!
>  2. Is transferrable to the IBM platform.
>  3. Is relatively simple to use in terms of entry and lookup.  I don't care
>     about complexity in printing or base design, but lookup *must* be
>     *very* simple - type in my match criteria and go, then result in a list.
>     Speed isn't too much of a factor, but it can't take an hour to search
>     the 10000-entry database.
>  4. Is (perhaps) relational.

4th Dimension is a very solid product. I'm running a multi-user 120MB medical
database, and performance is quite good. An indexed multi-conditional search
on a 300,000+ record file takes less than 5 seconds to execute. Data can
be easily exported to text, dif or sylk files. For simple database applications,
4D is easy to learn and implement.

--

    Brian K. Martin, M.D.
    Honolulu, Hawai`i

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